Final Score to miss Breeders' Cup with tender shin

Final Score, among the leading North American contenders for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on Oct. 31 at Del Mar, was not pre-entered for that race Monday owing to a tender shin, trainer Todd Pletcher said.

Final Score, a son of Not This Time owned by Mike Repole, has gone 3 for 3 on turf, including a 1 1/2-length victory in the Grade 3 With Anticipation on Aug. 28 at Saratoga and a 4 1/2-length score in the Grade 2 Bourbon on Oct. 5 at Keeneland.

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Final Score was to have been one of eight horses Pletcher planned to pre-enter in the Breeders’ Cup, including the quartet of Antiquarian, Fierceness, Mindframe, and Locked in the $7 million Classic; Ted Noffey in the $2 million Juvenile; Tommy Jo in the $2 million Juvenile Fillies; and Time to Dream in the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf.

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